I hadn't paid almost any attention to Musk, until very recently - when he made the bid to buy Twitter. But since then, I have watched a number of videos on him and his companies.
My original impression - mostly due to how Musk keeps being presented (by himself and his supporters) as a science-oriented person - was that Musk would at least have an MA in a rigorous scientific order, something like physics or engineering. But it turns out he only has a BA (not even a BS) in a Physics program.
Then I learned of how he continuously makes announcements about new tech being fully complete and working, within 1-2 years, and those announcements always fail to materialize - but in the meantime have attracted capital from investors, giving those companies a new supply of cash and ballooning their stock price. A good example of that is his most lucrative company, Tesla, where the price is something like 1 trillion (for the entire company), but it produces only around 1% of new cars in the US and has time and again failed to provide new tech it promised to have ready (such as self-driving cars).
The more stuff I see about Musk, the more it appears that he is essentially a luckier version of Elizabeth Holmes, having created a pyramid scheme to lure investors with promises of new tech and products, but then paying those investors only through new investment due to hype (instead of the product actually becoming better or incorporating any new tech).
Now, with the Twitter fiasco, which (afaik) will see court due to Twitter not letting Musk walk out of the deal he blundered himself into making, it is possible that Musk will have to sell more than 2/3 of his own stock in Tesla to get the 41-45 billion dollars required to buy a company (Twitter) that is losing money each year. It's not a sound economic plan at all, even if he would manage to sell Twitter for (say) a 10 billion profit; selling off his Tesla shares would diminish their price with every new batch sold, which in turn will reduce his own worth by tens of billions.
This thread also includes a poll, so you can select if, in your view, Musk is a fraud, or not.
) liking "young women" or "fast cars", but he has a record of promising stuff coming "next year" which never come around, which in turn makes his companies survive on hype and promise that they will at some point release the tech people invested in them expecting to see. That is pretty much a pyramid scheme: the company has no worth (or very little worth, in Musk's case) other than due to stock being in demand.
I suggest you read find better things to read. If not stopping at red lights is your measure of success, human drivers are far more guilty than the very few examples of AI errors.
